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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.Collection: Margaret
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.Collection: Margaret
All fat women look the same; they all look 42.Collection: Margaret
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.Collection: Margaret
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.Collection: Margaret
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.Collection: Margaret
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.Collection: Margaret
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.Collection: Margaret
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.Collection: Margaret
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?Collection: Margaret
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.Collection: Margaret
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.Collection: Margaret
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.Collection: Margaret
I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.Collection: Margaret
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.Collection: Margaret
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.Collection: Margaret
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.Collection: Margaret
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.Collection: Margaret
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.Collection: Margaret
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.Collection: Margaret
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.Collection: Margaret
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.Collection: Margaret
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'Collection: Margaret
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.Collection: Margaret
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.Collection: Margaret
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.Collection: Margaret
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.Collection: Margaret
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.Collection: Margaret
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.Collection: Margaret
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.Collection: Margaret
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.Collection: Margaret
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.Collection: Margaret
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.Collection: Margaret
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.Collection: Margaret
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.Collection: Margaret
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.Collection: Margaret
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?Collection: Margaret
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.Collection: Margaret
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.Collection: Margaret
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.Collection: Margaret
I'm bad at picking heroes.Collection: Margaret
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.Collection: Margaret
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.Collection: Margaret
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.Collection: Margaret
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.Collection: Margaret
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.Collection: Margaret
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.Collection: Margaret
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.Collection: Margaret
I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.Collection: Margaret
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.Collection: Margaret